Brian, whenever I have second thoughts, I like to leave a little bit of room just in case. The example I cited in my most recent post on this, the research of Kahneman and Tversky, comes pretty close to plain old human curiosity about whether one of the central tenets of economics, human rationality, really holds true. I would consider it as being more anti-ideological than ideologically based. However, K&T were psychologists, not economists, and therefore better equipped to use the laboratory.
Ed Ed Weick 577 Melbourne Ave. Ottawa, ON, K2A 1W7 Canada Phone (613) 728 4630 Fax (613) 728 9382 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian McAndrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ed Weick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 10:40 AM Subject: [Futurework] Re: Not ideological (was More crap again) > > At 9:39 AM -0500 12/20/02, Ed Weick wrote: > >Keith, I didn't mean to imply that you were an ideologue. And I do have to > >back off a bit and agree that not all economics is ideologically based. > > Hi Ed, > Show me the economics that is not ideologically based. Who wrote it? > An infallible human being? Ray's posting of Rupert Ross' thoughts on > Aboriginal language showing that their ethics shaped their concepts > of justice and education should cause us to experience a 'full stop' > re universal truths. > Your initial intuitions to this thread were accurate (IMHO) except > for the 'crap'. I would call it, literally, non-sense. > > Take care, > Brian > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
